UF HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY

News from the University of Florida Department of Urology May 2018

Message from the Chairman

Dear Friends and Colleagues of UF Heath Urology,

As we near the 2018 AUA Meeting in San Francisco, I want to extend a personal invitation for you to join us at our annual AUA UroGators Reception to be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis (780 Mission Street)on Saturday, 5/19 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm.

To mention a few highlights of this year, we are currently in the planning phase for our 60thCelebration of the UF Health-Shands Urology Program, which will be held in conjunction with our Visiting Professor Event October 5-6, 2018. We are very excited to have Steve Nakada, MD, chair of urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, who has kindly agreed to be our guest speaker this year. With the anticipated return of many alumni and former faculty, this combined event will be filled with fun and remembrance of our great history and how far our program has come. The festivities will end with the University of Florida Gator vs. LSU football game and tailgate.

Our department has added three additional advanced practice providers including Rosario Alfaro, ARNP, Hayley Johnson, PA-C and Elizabeth Stacy, PA-C, who in addition to Mitsu Andre, PA-C and Lindsay Rohan, ARNPhave done a fantastic job in their patient-centered care and helping to address our ever expanding patient volumes. Our department is very excited to announce the hiring of Chris Bayne, MD as a new pediatric urology faculty member, who will be joining the department in August 2018. Dr. Bayne is completing his fellowship at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Lastly, we are excited to welcome three new urology residents who will be starting in July 2018 including Kenan Ashouri (Florida Atlantic University), Nikhil Batra (University of Iowa) and Hiroko Miyagi(Ohio State University). With regards to our outgoing chief residents, both RussTerry, MDand Marla Wardenburg, MDwill be moving on to complete minimally invasive surgery fellowships at Duke and Columbia Universities respectively andPaulas Vyas, MDwill be joining a community practice in south Florida.

Lastly, our research program continues to thrive with Sergei Kusmartsev, PhDhaving recently received a $816,000 research grant through the J&E King Florida Biomedical Research Programin support of his study involving tumor-induced tolerance and immune suppression in bladder cancer along with co-investigators Paul Crispen, MDand Paul Dominguez, PhD. In addition, I want to congratulate one of our bright UF medical students, Vincent Roth (Class of 2021) who was selected for the 2018 AUA Summer Medical Student Fellowship Program. He will be studying UTI rates following office cystoscopy in urology patients at the Malcom Randall VA Hospital and will be mentored by Benjy Canales, MD.

Taken together, it has been another exciting and successful year at UF Health Urology.

It's great to be a UroGator!

October 5 – 6, 2018

Advanced Practice Providers Expanding Role at UF Urology

Along with our mainstayPhysician Assistant, Mitsu Andre and our Pediatric Urology Nurse PractitionerLindsay Rohan, UF Urology has added 3 more advanced practice providers (APPs) to our urology staff. Rosario Alfaro, ARNP, Hayley Johnson, PA-C and Elizabeth Stacy, PA-C have been a welcome addition to our clinic staff. After receiving specific urology training, these APPs are now able to help provide continuity of care to a full spectrum of urology patients.

2018 UF UROLOGY WELCOMES INCOMING RESIDENTS

We are proud to announce the new resident additions to our UF Health Urology family through the 2018 Urology Residency Match.

This year we are honored to have Kenan Ashouri (Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University), Nikhil Batra (University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine) and Hiroko Miyagi (Ohio State University College of Medicine)join our residency program. The application process was extremely competitive this year.

WELCOME NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

We are happy to welcomeChris Bayne, MD to our Department. Dr. Bayne will start in August and join the Division of Pediatric Urology here at the University of Florida.

Dr. Bayne comes to us after completing his fellowship in Pediatric Urology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bayne is a graduate of Eastern Virginia Medical School, in Norfolk, VA and completed his urology residency at George Washington, in Washington, D.C.

His project, entitled, “UTI Rate Following Office Cystoscopy in the Florida VA System After Implementation of New Standardized Handling and Storage Practices” was selected from 32 applications submitted for this year’s competition based on his potential for a successful career in urologic research, the quality of the mentorship he will receive, and the high scientific merit of his proposed research project.